The language instinct
Subtitle: how the mind creates language
By: Steven Pinker
Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Language and languages; Biolinguistics
Description: The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language.
Notes: Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Co., c1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index